Great Rift Valley, Ethiopia - Wikipedia
The Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia, (or Main Ethiopian Rift or Ethiopian Rift Valley) is a branch of the East African Rift that runs through Ethiopia in a southwest direction from the Afar triple junction. In the past, it was seen as part of a "Great Rift Valley" that ran from Mozambique to Syria.
Great Rift Valley - Wikipedia
The Great Rift Valley (Swahili: Bonde la ufa) is a series of contiguous geographic depressions, approximately 6,000 or 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) in total length, the definition varying between sources, that runs from the southern Turkish Hatay Province in Asia, through the Red Sea, to Mozambique in Southeast Africa. [1][2] While the name remai...
East African Rift System | Great Rift Valley, Ethiopia, Kenya
East African Rift System, one of the most extensive rifts on Earth’s surface, extending from Jordan in southwestern Asia southward through eastern Africa to Mozambique. The system is some 4,000 miles (6,400 km) long and averages 30–40 miles (48–64 km) wide.
East Africa's Great Rift Valley: A Complex Rift System - Geology.com
The oldest and best defined rift occurs in the Afar region of Ethiopia and this rift is usually referred to as the Ethiopian Rift. Further to the South a series of rifts occur which include a Western branch, the "Lake Albert Rift" or "Albertine Rift" which contains the East African Great Lakes, and an Eastern branch that roughly bisects Kenya ...
Rift Valley lakes - Wikipedia
The Rift Valley lakes are a series of lakes in the East African Rift valley that runs through eastern Africa from Ethiopia in the north to Malawi in the south, and includes the African Great Lakes in the south. These include some of the world's oldest lakes, deepest lakes, largest lakes by area, and largest lakes by volume.
Great Rift Valley - Ethiopia
The Great Rift Valley, formed about 20 million years ago, is the single largest geographical feature on the African continent. Ethiopian Rift Valley runs through Ethiopia from the Red Sea to the Kenyan border.
Great Rift Valley - Crack in the Planet's Crust - ThoughtCo
2019年3月30日 · The Rift Valley of eastern Africa and Asia (sometimes called the Great Rift Valley [GRV] or East African Rift system [EAR or EARS]) is an enormous geological split in the crust of the earth, thousands of kilometers long, up to 125 miles (200 kilometers) wide, and between a few hundred to thousands of meters deep.
The Ethiopian Rift Valley - The cradle of mankind
The system of rift valleys that characterizes the African continent represents a perfect environment to understand the evolution of mankind; for the important paleoanthropological discoveries in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zaire, the African rift valleys are indeed considered the "cradle of mankind", that is the place where our ...
The Ethiopian Rift Valley: geography and morphology
The Ethiopian rift valley: geography and morphology. The Ethiopian sector of the East African Rift system extends for more than 1000 km in a NE-SW to N-S direction from the Afar depression, at Red Sea-Gulf of Aden junction, southwards to the Turkana depression.
The Ethiopian Rift Valley (between 7° 00′ and 8° 40′ lat. north)
The Ethiopian Rift Valley, which cuts the uplifted Ethio-Somalian Plateau, is one of the most important structures of East Africa, and nevertheless it is still largely unknown. A preliminary 1/500,000 geological map as well as volcanological and petrological descriptions of an important part of this structure are presented.